The Epic Story Of America's Great Migration

No one knows exactly when or how it started or who took the first step to what later would become the Great Migration. Blacks in the south endured a great amount of pain due to the caste system that was placed in the mid 1870’s. The caste system would solely be based on race. The south payed no attention to the fourteenth amendment. In other words, blacks were stripped from their rights and protections. They had to step aside if a white person was walking. They had to respond with “sir” or they could be beaten. As soon as more and more people heard the whispers of a place that they could do the same things as a white person could do, they started planning their escape to the north. As they arrived, some saw they had left to a place that was similar to the south. …show more content…
Isabel Wilkerson, winner of a Pulitzer Prize, and a journalist, was born in Washington, D.C. in the year of 1961. Wilkerson got her education at Howard University in 1983. Wilkerson is married to Roderick Jeffrey Watts. Having written only one book, “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration,” Walker has received a total of ten awards for literature. The Great Migration is a topic people rarely hear about. Nevertheless know what it means. The Great Migration seems interesting not only by the name of it, but the impact it had in the United States. Knowing that people such as celebrities wouldn't exist if their their ancestors had not made the single decision to move to the north made the topic more